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God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen: piano notes with letters
The sheet music as written, with each note's letter under it
Every note below has its letter under it, sharps and flats as the score spells them, so you can find each key. Use the letters to get started, then leave them behind: a letter names the key, but the note on the staff also tells you how long to hold it, which hand plays it and where the tune goes next, at a glance. Play it with the letters once or twice, then drill its 23 notes on the staff and print the page without them.
- Level
- 3 of 7
- Key
- E minor
- Time
- 2/2
- Length
- 20 bars
- Notes to know
- 23
Drill its 23 notes Practise it
Plays on a MIDI keyboard in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a computer, or Chrome on an Android phone or tablet, or on the keys on screen without one.
- Right hand plays
- C C♯ D D♯ E F F♯ G A B
- Left hand plays
- C D D♯ E F♯ G G♯ A B
Print the whole piece
- With the letters20 bars
- Without the letters20 bars
When you can name its notes without looking down, read it from God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen's page: the same music with no letters, its easier versions, and what stands between you and it. How letter names work, and the other ways of naming notes: piano note names.
Score typed for Clefsight from Novello, Ewer and Co., London, 1890, ed. Henry Ramsden Bramley (words) and John Stainer (music) (scan on the Internet Archive), checked note for note, shared under CC0 1.0; the composition is a traditional tune, and so is John Stainer’s arrangement. Credits
Checked against the edition. Typed twice from the scan, each time without seeing the other, then compared bar by bar; the two agreed in every bar. How we check